[Rockhounds] Shooting Star: French Woman Sitting on Her Terrace Struck By Mystery Space Rock

[John Scully]

Something like this happened in Pensylvania 30 years ago🙂

On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 7:45 PM Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you imagine quietly sipping coffee and minding your own business when a
> random rock coming all the way from outer space decides to pick beef with
> you? As outlandish as this sounds, this is exactly what happened to a woman
> in the village of Alsace located in eastern France.
>
> As per the French newspaper Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (DNA), the
> woman was sitting outside on her terrace, chatting with a friend when the
> mysterious pebble hit her in the ribs earlier this month, on July 6.
>
> While calling the object a pebble could make it sound harmless, it still
> managed to leave a bruise.
>
> “I heard a big 'Poom' coming from the roof next to us. In the second that
> followed, I felt a shock on the ribs,” the unidentified woman told the
> French newspaper.
>
> She mistook it for an animal, perhaps a bat, at first, but she soon
> realised that it resembled a piece of cement — the kind applied to ridge
> tiles. Except, it was colourless.
>
> When she got it checked by a local roofer, he suggested that it could be a
> meteorite. Further examination by geologist Dr Thierry Rebmann only
> confirmed its extraterrestrial origins.
>
>
> https://weather.com/en-IN/india/space/news/2023-07-17-french-woman-sitting-on-her-terrace-struck-by-meteorite
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